[AZ-Observing] Re: Hermes in Science
- From: Brian Skiff <Brian.Skiff@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 12:52:19 -0700 (MST)
>> What I did not know...
>> was that two
>> years ago two German astronomers predicted its return in October of this
>> year. The Science article states:
>> The asteroid's return comes as no surprise to Lutz Schmadel and Joachim
>> Schubart of the Astronomishes Rechen-Institut in Heidelberg, Germany.
>> ...on the basis of previously unstudied photographic plates...
I think this was a deal where they published the result, but not
in a place that is widely read. The positions from the previously
unstudied plates still do not appear in the MPC's data set for the
asteroid, so without that information no one can know what they actually
did.
\Brian
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